The job's half done

AUSTRALIA'S unseeded players progressed through the opening
qualifying rounds of the table tennis singles without dropping a
set yesterday, but must finish off the job of qualifying for the
main singles draw today.

Australia's No. 4 ranked player, Peri Campbell Innis, coasted
through her two matches butwill face a tougher opponent in Naomi
Owen of Wales to progress to the main draw.

May Cho must also play a Welsh woman in her second match, her
opponent being Siwan Davies. Stephanie Sang easily dispatched South
Africa's Sameera Maal and will have no issue with Kiribati's Selima
Tetau.

David Zalcberg has the toughest opponent between him and a berth
in the main mens' draw. Zalcberg comfortably accounted for the
Maldives' Ismail Shahid but must play Han-Ting Lee, Singapore's No.
4 player.

Brett Clark, Trevor Brown and Russell Lavale all won.

In this competition, guaranteed entry goes only to the top eight
seeds, the rest of the players are divided into three-person groups
who play off to enter the main draw.

William Henzell in the men's and Jian Fang Lay and Miao Miao in
the women's are the only Australian seeds.